Coastworks AI is based in Buderim, and we set up AI systems for small businesses across the Sunshine Coast: trades, clinics, studios, shops and services from Caloundra to Noosa. For practice owners we wrote up how a solo clinic gets its front desk off its hands. If you are further away, everything we do works over video conferencing too. This page is the short local version of who we are, what we build and what it costs. The full version, with the founder, the ABN and how we work, is who is behind Coastworks AI. For venue owners, what Sunshine Coast pubs could be automating.
What we actually set up
Not a chatbot bolted to your website and not another subscription. We set up a small rented server in your name, connect it to your sales, bookings and accounts through read-only connections you control, and put AI to work on the jobs that eat your evenings: customer emails drafted for your approval, a newsletter that actually goes out, invoices chased, quotes followed up, and a daily report on your numbers each morning. Nothing reaches a customer without a real person approving it first. If you want the longer answer on where to begin, we wrote up what a small business should automate first, and the full list of the automations we build is on its own page. Being found in the AI answer at the top of Google is its own piece of work, and we set out exactly what our AI search and SEO set-up covers.
Local when it helps, remote when it suits
We are Buderim based, so Sunshine Coast businesses get someone in their own timezone who knows the area: Buderim, Maroochydore, Mooloolaba, Caloundra, Nambour, the hinterland and up to Noosa. Most of the work itself happens by screen share, which is exactly how we serve owners Australia-wide. Same systems, same prices, wherever you are.
You own every piece of it
The accounts are yours, the passwords are yours, the server is yours. We guide the setup by screen share, our temporary access is removed at handover, and your data stays in accounts you control. If we disappeared tomorrow, everything we built for you keeps running.
What it costs
Flat prices, published: packages from $495 to $8,900 one-off, support plans from $195 a month if you want ongoing help, and the running costs disclosed up front rather than discovered later. The full breakdown, including what each price buys and how to compare a quote from anyone, is in our complete price list.
Proof, not promises
This website runs on the same systems we sell: it greets visitors, delivers our free guide, reads and files enquiries and produces a morning report, most of it done by breakfast. We wrote up the business you are looking at so you can see it from the inside, and everything else we publish lives in The Lab. The standard of the websites themselves is on show in our website demonstration builds. What one of those builds includes for your business is on our websites page. We run the same three-search check on every business before we ever meet them, and what that check actually finds is worth five minutes of your own time.
Choosing an AI consultant here
There are more AI consultants on the Sunshine Coast every month, and most are built for bigger businesses than yours: larger professional firms, custom-quoted projects, prices that only appear after a discovery call. None of that is wrong. It is just not built for the owner who answers their own phone. Before you choose anyone, including us, ask the seven questions in our pricing article: fixed price in writing, who owns the accounts, what it costs to run, what happens if you leave, whether they would recommend less, who they usually work with, and whether they will teach you to run it yourself.
How it starts
Answer a few short questions about your business and we will tell you honestly whether this is a fit. We reply within 4 business hours. From there it is a 60 minute video consult for $295, credited toward every build except the Starter Pack, where we map exactly what to set up first.
Flat prices. No hourly rates. Your accounts, your passwords, your systems.